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New on the Countdown Story website: a section dedicated to project impact. Now featured in that section is our 2020-2021 evaluation report, and the 50 minute KINSHIP podcast episode featuring members of the Countdown team.

ReDefine Arts is proud to partner with Lanark County Interval House to realize the Countdown Smiths Falls mosaic monument.

Closing out Theatre Passe Muraille’s 22.23 season, Trace by Tristan R. Whiston and Moynan King explores the ongoing nature of Queer being and becoming.

Exploring the role of arts-based research in collaborative and community-engaged artistic practice.

ReDefine Arts is hiring Community Arts Interns for the Countdown Public Art Project in North Hastings, Ontario.

RDA 2023 Winter Newsletter: In December 2022, RDA’s Program & Access Coordinator, Megan Wilk, joined Jumblies Theatre, The Community Arts Guild, and Arts4All for Artfare Essentials; an immersive workshop for artists working with community and community-engaged arts.

On November 17, 2022 in Maynooth, Ontario, the Community Corridor of Inclusion and Resilience project held Braiding Knowledges, a discussion of land, place and people, with 50 North Hastings residents.

ReDefine Arts looks forward to presenting DIGITAL STORIES: Building Cultures of Consent, an online showcase of digital art connected to our rural Ontario arts projects which are rooted in action to end gender-based violence through art-making and community-building.

RDA Fall 2022 Newsletter: Anna talks about an intense and rewarding summer working on the Renfrew County Inquest Public Art Response project in the Madawaska Valley.

The Community Corridor of Inclusion and Resilience (CCIR) is moving on to Phase 2: Remembering and Resistance. ReDefine Arts is honoured to be a CCIR project partner, and always so grateful for opportunities to deepen and grow our relationships with local artists and change makers in North Hastings.

We regret to announce that the planned unveiling of the new community-engaged pebble mosaic, set to be unveiled on September 29, 2022, has been postponed to May, 2023 during sexual assault awareness month. Read the full media release and watch a short commemorative video.

In June 2022, we welcomed three artistic collectives into conversation to explore themes of interdependence, care and kinship in each of their unique creative processes. Watch, listen and learn more about the collectives and Unscripted: KINSHIP!